Pendulum

[Phil Firsenbaum]

Wonderful, I've got the thing swinging from a fixed point, but it's not 
a pendulum yet...it keeps swinging at the same rate and returns to the 
same position.
Anyone want to venture a hint as to how to slow it down relative to the 
length of its "string?"
Phil


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi Phil,
>
> The easiest way of doing this is to draw a sketch for the pendulum and 
> then set both the "center of rotation" and its "heading arrow" 
> accordingly:
>
<image.tiff>
>
> ?Once you did this you can change the heading so that it swings:
>
<image.tiff>
>
> Cheers,
>
> ? - Andreas
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-squeakland at squeakland.org
> > [mailto:owner-squeakland at squeakland.org] On Behalf Of Phil Firsenbaum
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:59 PM
> > To: squeakland at squeakland.org
> > Subject: Pendulum
> >
> >
> > One of my colleagues is doing a pendulum study in her 5th grade
> > classroom. I thought it would be interesting to do a Squeak project
> > about pendulums.
> > This is as far as I've gotten...I'm not sure how to make the pendulum
> > swing while it's fixed point stays attached to the blue block.
> > Any suggestions?
> > Phil
> >
> >
>
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